6.9

CVE-2026-2303: Heap Out-of-Bounds Read in Go Driver GSSAPI C Wrappers enables application crash or information leak

Deferred
AliasesSUSE-RU-2026:2815-1CGA-2238-mwvc-fj99CGA-247p-9qp7-56fr
Published 10-02-2026Last modified 11-02-2026

Vulnerability summary

CVE-2026-2303 is a medium (CVSS 6.9) Permissive List of Allowed Inputs vulnerability in mongodb inc mongodb go driver. EPSS estimates a 0.32% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, higher than 24.8% of scored vulnerabilities.

Priority
Routine

Not severe (CVSS 6.9, network access); no exploitation reported by the 5 checked sources

Source freshness unavailable

How is this decided?
CVSS score
6.9/10
010
Medium · v4.0 (CVE.org)
EPSS score
0.32%
0%100%
Low · +0.08 pp in 30 days
KEVNot listedNot listed by any tracked catalog.
RansomwareNot flaggedNo ransomware use recorded.
Public exploits0No public exploits recorded

Advisory lineage

Upstream 0 · Downstream 13 · Related 14

Timeline

  1. 10-02-2026
    PublishedVulnerability first disclosed.
  2. 11-02-2026
    Last modifiedVulnerability information updated.

Description

The mongo-go-driver repository contains CGo bindings for GSSAPI (Kerberos) authentication on Linux and macOS. The C wrapper implementation contains a heap out-of-bounds read vulnerability due to incorrect assumptions about string termination in the GSSAPI standard. Since GSSAPI buffers are not guaranteed to be null-terminated or have extra padding, this results in reading one byte past the allocated heap buffer.

CVSS metrics

10 scores · 5 sources · 2 versions

EPSS trend

Probability

0.32%

Chance of exploitation in the next 30 days

Percentile

25%

Versus all other CVEs

30-day change

Increase +0.08 pp

From 0.24% on 04-10-2026

04-10-202603-11-2026

Known exploited

Compare KEV catalogs
CISA KEV

Not in the CISA KEV catalog.

ENISA CNW

Not in the ENISA CNW catalog.

CIRCL

Not in the CIRCL catalog.

Public exploits

0 found

No public exploits indexed.

Weaknesses

CWE · root cause

Affected systems

Version check

Known conditions: network-reachable, low-privilege account, user interaction (CVSS vector). Other conditions: not stated in public data.

Chainguard200 products
  • agentbeat< 9.2.7-r14
  • agentbeat-fips< 9.2.7-r13
  • amazon-cloudwatch-agentAll versions (No fix recorded) | < 1.300073.0-r1 | < 1.300070.0-r2
  • amazon-cloudwatch-agent-fips< 1.300070.0-r0
  • argo-cd-3.0All versions (No fix recorded)

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References

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